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WiFi is a layer 1 and 2 networking protocol for wireless communication between devices. It is typically used in local networks for client access, but can also be used in point-to-point network links. WPA is used to encrypt traffic.

If I have a wired network with a DHCP-enabled router, do I need a wireless access point or a router to give wifi access to the office? Do all wifi routers have a mode for reverting to access points if ...

Hiii,
I have an internet connection which is shared by 8 users via an D-Link N150 wireless router.
It is 1Mbps connection and we want that no one should download in excess when everyone is using the ...

Quick question for you wireless gurus. If you ping a machine over a wireless network every .2 seconds, how many failed pings would be acceptable and "reliable" within a minute?
This is an XP machine ...

I need to monitor users on my network. I currently use a captive portal router that gives users access and assigns them dynamic IP addresses. How can I monitor which sites my users are browsing and ...

What is the best solution to connect a wireless to a wired network, so that both get their IP from one DHCP server and can communicate with each other as if they were the same network? The wireless ...

I live in a small town which has one primary ISP. Lately I have noticed that a number of wireless routers have been locking up and requiring a reboot before allowing any connections. This has affected ...

I graduated with a degree in Business Administration and now I would like to take a career in Network Administration. I spent 3 years in my previous job as a Technical Support Representative. As you ...

After a lot of troubleshooting, I now believe my server is causing my router to flap up and down.
I pinged the router all night and it showed zero packet loss, but after pluggin in my server, it's up ...

In our network, we are connected to the outside world with an ADSL modem. A (wireless) router is connected to this ADSL modem, which provides wireless access to 3 laptops, and a USB connection to a ...

I just want to know, I read on the net, that one way to avoid channel overlaping is by increasing the power of your AP.
However, I can not find any adequate explanation, how does it solve the problem ...

We have 2 tablet PC's mounted to reach trucks that are used in a shipping / receiving warehouse. This warehouse is filled with huge metal racks and pallets of paper products. These reachtrucks seem ...

I have a XAMPP test server running on my Windows Vista laptop. I also have a small wireless router. I would like be able to create a small temp network that could broadcast that network so any other ...

We currently utilize wifi access in some of our buildings, we are not using RADIUS at this point, but we are using WPA2 with PKI, the issue has recently come up that we want to keep our key private so ...

We have a local network (A) of about 50 computers connected via gigabit ethernet. We get a connection to the internet using two broadband connections to a backbone and distribute the bandwidth across ...

I'm trying to run a wireless network from my computer so that people in range can connect to the network and hit a website running off my machine. I don't want to enable file sharing or remote access ...

I'm trying to sniff out my network's wireless traffic but am having issues. I'm able to put the card in monitor mode, but am unable to see any traffic except broadcasts, multicasts and probe/beacon ...

How about this situation. Our business deals a lot with medical information. And some of our clients have demands based off HIPPA, etc.
There is one now where they do not want an employee to have both ...

I setup an wireless AP (linksys wifi router) to have no dhcp and point to the main router as the default gateway.
I also set it up to obtain a ip from the network
but when i go to my main router and ...

Is it possible to use two of these both providing connectivity to the same network name for additional signal by having one plugged into a hot data port and having the other only powered by the AC? It ...

We have a wireless network where I work.
I've installed TightVNC viewer on a WinXP box, and I'm using it to connect to my laptop which has Ubuntu 9.04 installed.
So far, everything works right up to ...

There's a small network that's in 1 building that we want to extend to another building about 75 feet away but running an Ethernet cable is not easily doable. I'd like to extend the network wirelessly ...